Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half days. In an attack on Bremen, Thunderbolts and P-38 Lightnings made their longest escort penetration of the war (900 round-trip miles). Lost: 15 heavy bombers. U.S. and British heavy bombers from North Africa and the R.A.F. Bomber Command in Britain attacked the Germans' rail lines between France and Italy, reported that the most important of them had been severed at least temporarily...
From bases in Italy, Lightning-escorted U.S. Mitchell (B25) medium bombers this week made their first raid on Sofia, vital Nazi rail hub, and left the Bulgarian capital's yards wreathed in smoke and flame. Crowed an Allied spokesman: "This successful opening of the Balkans offensive has far-reaching consequences...
Reunion. The white ship with the green band around her belly and red crosses all over her turned up in Liverpool next day. As the Atlantis came alongside the quay, a voice began calling "Cynthia"; soon the battered ranks along the rail were roaring in chorus: "Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia." A tall, handsome girl stepped out of the packed crowd on the dock and waved. Cynthia Elliot, niece of Lady Maud Carnegie, was taken prisoner with a mobile canteen unit in France in 1940, put to nursing 1,500 wounded and captured men of Dunkirk. With many of those...
...German demolition and mining had reached a new peak of thoroughness. Communications behind the enemy front, left usable by Allied air attack, were being systematically destroyed. A report from Allied headquarters noted that the Nazis in the east had blown up 13 roads and rail bridges, leaving a minimum passage for retreat, along the Adriatic coast to Pescara, 40 miles ahead of the Eighth Army...
...bald, hard-driving General Ivan Konev had opened a breach 28 miles wide, 16 miles deep, soon pushed the wedge southward at a fast pace. By this week, his army had driven some 70 miles into the bulge, was pounding on the gates of Krivoi Rog, an important rail and iron center. Outflanked, the German troops in Dniepropetrovsk abandoned the great city, with its wrecked power plants and factories, for a desperate flight southward. Over them roared Stormoviks, strafing and bombing...